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- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked
- Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked"when an optical reader and paper ballot solve everything?? "It doesn't solve the problem of how to allow elections to be manipulated, which is what this is all about.The ability to produce a desired election result without having any way to challenge it is a...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Colorado decertifies voting machines
- Colorado decertifies voting machinesSo, the mere fact that there was no printout, ...... or the capability of even GENERATING a hard copy of the vote, wasn't enough to alert these geniuses in the IT and Administrative departments of the government that we probably SHOULDN'T be USING these things?I guess there...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, electronic-voting machine, ballot, paper ballot
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- FL legislature contends with problems with e-voting machines
- When the Florida Legislature convenes in March, the future of electronic voting machines will be one of the top items of business. While much of the country is registering fears about the ways votes are handled with the machines, Florida once again is in the limelight with an ongoing controversy...
- Tags: paper ballot, ballot, e-voting, Christine Jennings, E-Voting Machine
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- E-Voting
- The most striking thing about the whole evoting controversy is that everybodys focused on the visible part of the iceberg while the action, as usual, goes on below -i.e. people focus on the voting and tabulation processes, not the voter registration, poll management, and control processes where most of the...
- Tags: ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Process is the key to voting security
- Yesterday I used the new touch-screen voting systems for the first time. My initial reaction was that they were easy to use and very clear about what was happening at each stage. The ability to check your ballot and compare it with the paper ballot that the machine...
- Tags: ballot, security
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
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- Election industry fights open source like it is 1999
- Election industry fights open source like it is 1999Correction: change the insecure in previous posting to secureReally got to look closer at what I post.I have to agree that the electronic election industryNeeds some severe reform, if not the hammer brought down on them. I was ALWAYS suspicious as to...
- Tags: Companies, election industry, open source, TRANSPARENCY
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- The credit crisis, visualized
- The credit crisis, visualizedBarnie Frank Fannie May Democrats caused this messYes, it is caused by the people behind these outfits who told banks to make these loans.No problem, Socialism will take care of these people at the cost of BILLIONS of dollars from the middle class.Also, our new leader will...
- Tags: Taxes, Mortgages, Free trade, Personal finance, Obama, tax, credit crisis, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- Secure Remote Voting for Overseas and Disabled Voters
- As a recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST explained, the easiest-to-solve portion of UOCAVA voting is simply delivering ballots to voters. Technologies as simple as email and fax can transmit a blank ballot quickly anywhere in the world. However, a ballot which cannot be successfully...
- Tags: Ballot, Fax, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...
- Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?
- Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
- Tags: Keyboards, e-voting system, e-voting, e-voting machine, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Hacking the vote
- Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...
- Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
- Tags: ballot, e-voting, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- eVoting systems come under fire
- As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...
- Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Our students will need to drive e-voting
- Our students will need to drive e-votingEvoting vs Paper voting.Chris,That's a great question. I sent my wife teacher this link to ask her opinion and also ask her to talk to a few students to see what they say. I'll be interested in what they have to say.In my...
- Tags: e-voting, ballot
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- News to know: Intel-OLPC divorce; iPod diagnostics; Vostro; Patch preview
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Intel's OLPC pullout sets up XO vs Classmate PC duel Christopher Dawson: OLPC and Intel part ways. What would my ideal education ultraportable look like? Techmeme. David Morgenstern: Testing the iPod's secret diagnostic tools Robin Harris: Microsoft...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Wireless LANs, Digital Music, Digital Media, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot optionThe ACLU is rightCan't be wrong all of the time. 62 days before the primary is not the time to make a change. Better to wait until the general election.Give Us The Choice For Who/What To TrustPaper Please. I want my...
- Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, ballot option
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Ohio orders counties to offer paper ballot option
- Playing things right down to the wire, Ohio election officials have ordered counties that use touch-screen voting machines -- there are 55 of them -- to provide paper ballots for voters who request them during the March 4 primary, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Secretary of State Jennifer...
- Tags: County, Ballot, Ohio, Keyboards, Financial Accounting, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- CO official wants return to paper ballots
- CO official wants return to paper ballotsSecret CodeAs long as the code which tallies my vote is kept secret, I am going to doubt its honesty.I may not care to read that source code but I do care to be allowed to read it.Paper ballots are a good thingIt's reliable...
- Tags: Paper Ballots, ballot, voter, post voter
- Discussion threads 2007-12-26
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